Mechanical toy.



L. M. MO0RADIAN.

MECHANICAL TOY.

Aprucmou FILED FEB- 1. 1919.

1,302,696. Patented May 6, 1919.

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LEON M. MOORADIAN, 0F BRIGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

MECHANICAL TOY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 6, 1919.

Application filed February 1, 1919. Serial No. 274,456.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEON M. MOORADIAN, residing at Brighton, in thecounty of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new anduseful Improvements in Mechanical Toys, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, formingpart thereof.

This invention relates to mechanical toys in which the revolution ofarms on a revolvin g shaft serve to operate mechanical figures placedupon the platform of a box.

My object in the invention is to provide a toy as specified above ofsimple, inexpen sive and durable construction, showing a number offigures each representing a tradesman at work. The figures chosen forthis invention represent a tailor, a shoemaker, a carpenter and ablacksmith at work at a table, at a shoe-stand, at a table, at an anvil.Any figure having the same downward and upward motion ofthe armrepresenting other trades may be substituted in place of any one ofthese figures. Any number of figures may be placed upon the plat form orthe present number may be reduced.

The machinery of this invention is so constructed that it produces theproper alternation of the strokes of the tools held by the toy figures.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a top plan view of the toy; Fig. 2 is alongitudinal sectional view on the line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is atransverse sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a detailedsectional view showing the arm rod and its connecting numbers; Fig. 5 isa sectional view on the line 55 of Fig. 4.

The reference numeral 1 indicates a platform upon which is supported ashoe-stand 16 and a shoe l7 and at one side of the stand is a toy figure6, an anvil block 10, and an anvil 11, and at one side of the anvil atoy figure 7, a table 18 with tools thereon, and at the side of thetable is a toy figure 8, a table 12, and tools 13, 14, 15 and at oneside of the table is a toy figure 9.

The arms 22, 23, 24, 25 of figures 6, 7, 8 and 9 are motionless and eachhand holds the article to be worked on, said article which rests uponthe table, upon the shoestand, upon the anvil, and upon the knee asshown in Fig. 1. The arms 26, 27, and 28 hold a hammer, the arm 29 holdsa needle. The oscillating rod 30 is held in place at point 19 the otherend having a crank arm 31 which is connected to the upper end of a rod32. This rod extends down through the body of the figure and the leg ofthe chair and through an opening in the platform. The lower end of saidrod being connected to a laterally extending member 34. One end of theoscillating rod 30 for figure 7 is held in place at point 19 the otherend having a crank arm 31 which is connected to the upper end of a rod37. This rod extends down through the body and the leg of the figure andthrough an opening in the platform. The lower end of said rod beingconnected to a laterally extending member 38. The revolving shaft 40 isarranged inside the box and is held in place at point 35, the other endextending through an opening at the side of the box and connected to acrank arm 39. The arms 41, 42, 43,44 revolve with the shaft. Therevolving arm 42 presses down on the laterally extending member 34 andit pulls the rod 32 down, and raises the arm 26 of figure 6 at the sametime the revolving arm 41 is raised off the laterally extending member38 and allows the rod 37 to come down and lowers the arm 27 of figure 7,producing the alternate movement of the arms 26 and 27. The revolvingarms 43, 44 are for figures 8 and 9 and the operation of their mechanismis similar to the above described. The shaft 50, with perpendicular armsarranged inside the box below revolving shaft 40, is secured at bothends to the sides of the box said perpendicular arms keeping thelaterally extending members in place.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my saidinvention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare thatwhich I claim is:

nected to the crank arm, a member extending transversely of the rod andoperating mechanism comprising a shaft extending longitudinally throughthe casing having arms to engage the laterally extending members andoscillate the arms of the figures upon rotation of the shaft, a shaftwith perpendicular arms arranged inside the casing below the revolvingshaft secured at both ends to sides of the casing, said perpendi- 10cular arms keeping the laterally extending members in place.

LEON M. MOORADIAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0.

